Yanks get Mark Teixeira

[twinsGM]

I am sick of the city of New York

I have never hated the Yanks more. See rant above.

[RedsoxRockies]

All they do is buy out the league and then whine because they do it wrong. I will laugh when Tex, CC, and Burnett get season ending injuries and Wang breaks his foot running the bases. I really, REALLY hope the Brewers overworked CC. But oh well, it is funny that the Yanks have to spend so much just to finish 3rd. And now they have Arod for 10 years and Tex for 8. Yeah, have fun with those contracts. All I have to say about Hank is this: **** you, you sore loser.

[metsguy234]

I am sick of the city of New York

What's wrong with the Mets? They're the loveable underdogs of baseball!

[metsguy234]

All they do is buy out the league and then whine because they do it wrong. I will laugh when Tex, CC, and Burnett get season ending injuries and Wang breaks his foot running the bases. I really, REALLY hope the Brewers overworked CC. But oh well, it is funny that the Yanks have to spend so much just to finish 3rd. And now they have Arod for 10 years and Tex for 8. Yeah, have fun with those contracts. All I have to say about Hank is this: **** you, you sore loser.

Agreed whole-heartedly

[RedsoxRockies]

What's wrong with the Mets? They're the loveable underdogs of baseball!

Were in the 60's? In that case I am going to go back to watching I Love Lucy or Star Trek, and spin some Beatles. Maybe I will get some of those new bell bottoms and a hair cut like Ringo.

[metsguy234]

Were in the 60's? In that case I am going to go back to watching I Love Lucy or Star Trek, and spin some Beatles. Maybe I will get some of those new bell bottoms and a hair cut like Ringo.

I Love Lucy is from the 50s

Bell bottoms are from the 70s

Star Trek is like the 80s

And I doubt you'd be "spinning" the Beatles, because DJs didn't really become popular until the 70s

[Red Sox Fan 734]

The yankees spending half a billion dollars will just make it that much better for Red Sox fans when we finish higher then them in the standings

[actionjackson]

Why are people so upset about the Yankees spending money from their endless revenue streams on their team? Where you should be directing your wrath is at the Commissioners Office specifically to fix the draft. It was originally set up in 1965 to prevent rich teams from buying up all the amateur talent. It has become broken recently because of the soft enforcement of the slot money rules. Don't go over slot. Why not? Because uncle Bud says so is not exactly preventing some of the premium talent from falling to the teams that can pay the idiotic bonus demands. It's the life line of the small market teams and it's become a joke as more and more rich teams with a crappy position in the draft somehow still seem to wind up with some of the better players. Hmmm. How exactly is this any different from the situation that existed pre-1965? We're not quite there yet and we probably never will be (I don't envision B, C, D, and E leagues existing again, but you never know) but the draft is going in a direction that's away from its original purpose of being one way to help struggling teams. That bothers me far more than $423.5 million being thrown at 3 free agents by the richest team in baseball.

[Alloutwar]

That's a good point. I keep reading about draft picks that could've/should've been picked higher, but get passed over by small market teams, and picked up by the Sox or something. Lars Anderson was the one I was reading...signing bonus was too rich.

Between that and the international free agents, you;re right, those are big concerns. Perhaps moreso than the Yanks doing that normal Yankee thing.

[KowboyKoop]

Nothing much is going to change...the league isn't interested in making things more fair. They just want to make money and have the ratings....NY and Boston being good gets them better ratings...thus they can mostly do whatever they want. It's always going to be that way.

[dickay]

This thread is kind of comical. I have no probs with the yanks spending money, its the system and really they're just 'replacing' payroll shed already. They are also 'replacing' stats. Yes, Tex is most certainly an upgrade on their offense but they also lost Giambi, and Abreu, the latter has been a pretty consistent and solid offensive talent.

Those chiming in with crazy expectations for this offense shouldn't be so quick to jump for joy. I don't see it as marketably better than Bostons by any means. For the comments about all the questionmarks with Bostons offense (Papi, Lowell, Yuke, Drew, C, SS) one could easily counter with the same for NYY (CF, Posada, Cano, Nady, Matsui, Damon). I personally don't see Yuke or Drew as questionmarks at all but hey...to each there own.

Anyhow, I don't see the Yanks 'that' much improved offensively over last year, though obviously they are greatly improved 'pitching' wise. Even with that I don't see it marketably better than the Sox. CC while great second half last year, and really over the past two years is solid...the Sox could counter with Beckett or Lester with minimal dropoff and equal question marks. Burnett is solid when healthy, but not quite the talent of Beckett or Lester at their finest IMO. Wang, coming back from a tough injury...he's good but again, equivalent in talent.

The Sox now, I actually like passing on Tex. He'll give 10-12 more HR"s per year than Yuke on average (it wasn't a career year, he's developing still into a power threat), RBI's are more a function of the team and position in the lineup. I don't see him as a 15 - 18 million dollar improvement over Yuke at 1st. I also would wonder how team chemistry would be effected by adding a 25 million dollar bat and moving an MVP candidate who is making less than his value to a new position to do so.

The Sox need another bat yes, largely for versatility in case of injury specifically in the IF but also in the OF. The excess money not spent can easily find a suitable candidate. More importantly, I think Derek Lowe can help the team more than Tex could next year, and I hope they grab him. Another inning eating SP'er is exactly what the Sox need.

[raveneye217]

whats the point of baseball unless your a yankee fan? Maybe the billion yankee fans are happy, but baseball just went down with this, especialy with the teams we have now who are cheap to get a decent player. But if the MLB allows this, fine. Guess when the sport in general goes down they'll see what happens. I'll stick to the NFL now on, where every year a team down in dumps comes and competes, why, because of damn salary cap! Another rougher year for the O's.

[dickay]

whats the point of baseball unless your a yankee fan? Maybe the billion yankee fans are happy, but baseball just went down with this, especialy with the teams we have now who are cheap to get a decent player. But if the MLB allows this, fine. Guess when the sport in general goes down they'll see what happens. I'll stick to the NFL now on, where every year a team down in dumps comes and competes, why, because of damn salary cap! Another rougher year for the O's.

this is not new...and attendance has rose every year over the past decade. also, as far as I know...their payroll is equivalent to last years. let it go.

[200tang]

whats the point of baseball unless your a yankee fan? Maybe the billion yankee fans are happy, but baseball just went down with this, especialy with the teams we have now who are cheap to get a decent player. But if the MLB allows this, fine. Guess when the sport in general goes down they'll see what happens. I'll stick to the NFL now on, where every year a team down in dumps comes and competes, why, because of damn salary cap! Another rougher year for the O's.

Salary cap is cool, but when a team is bad, they're BAD in the NFL compared to the MLB, or at least it seems like that from the small schedule.

Somewhat off topic, but man did you guys see the Lions after their loss? I felt bad for them (although i still want to see them lose every game). I think Calvin Johnson said it best when he said something along the lines of "Some of these rookies don't even know what it feels like to win a game yet". Hah.

[StreetMedic]

I'll stick to the NFL now on, where every year a team down in dumps comes and competes, why, because of damn salary cap!

Is any NFL team really, chronically "up against" the salary cap these days?

I ask because I really don't know. At first blush, it's just my impression that most teams' personnel gurus got the thing figured out to the point where it's really not much of a factor in their day-to-day operations and number-juggling.

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